Steven Soderbergh Took the Sound and Color Out of Indiana Jones

Steven Soderbergh has mashed up both versions of Psycho and recut his own Heaven’s Gate, so now he’s turned Raiders of the Last Ark into a silent film, stripping the film of sound and color and replacing its soundtrack with a spare electronic score. Soderbergh hopes that the film’s new form will help viewers pay more attention to the art of staging: “See if you can reproduce the thought process that resulted in these choices by asking yourself: why was each shot — whether short or long — held for that exact length of time and placed in that order?” It’s not embeddable, so head over to Soderbergh’s site if you feel like watching Raiders again. (Who doesn’t?)